Today, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released The Truth Behind Crime Statistics, a critical new report that explores how current politicized discussions of crime ignore or distort crime data to intensify public fear and ...
The United States Department of Justice last week named Elise Boddie, a constitutional law professor and legal scholar at the University of Michigan, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, the second highest leadership position within ...
Yesterday, the United States House of Representatives passed a package of policing bills that included Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s Invest to Protect Act (H.R. 6448), which provides grant funding for law enforcement agencies for hiring and ...
As the New York City Districting Commission prepares to consider Preliminary Plan #1 for the post-2020 census redistricting cycle, the Legal Defense Fund sent a letter urging the Commission to revisit this map to ensure ...
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today announced the creation of the Strategic Initiatives Department, which will house specific projects and campaigns that integrate LDF’s multi-faceted advocacy tools – including litigation, policy, organizing, communications, research, and ...
Yesterday, the White House hosted the “United We Stand” Summit, a full-day event designed to celebrate the equal dignity of all people and resist the rising current of hate-fueled violence that in recent years has ...
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